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About 18 years ago I was hired to lead an Automation Development team for Lotus Notes and Domino. Near the end of the 1990’s, the Lotus Notes and Domino product had become so complex that a single code change in an obscure place in the code could negatively impact any numerous API’s or applications. The directive of the automation development team was simple – provide an automation framework for API and regression testing. At the time “test driven development” was not really a wide spread thing and developers hated writing unit tests. So the automation team had a single directive, automate the 20 million lines of code across 7 platforms after each build, every single day. The task was daunting but we saw an immediate improvement in quality in the first year alone, winning us an IBM Corporate Award.